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Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez – mariachi song lyrics

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Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez

One familiar street and you forget all over again that it ended. Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez is Juan Gabriel's ambush of memory, made magnificent.

About the Song

Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez is a classic bolero written by Juan Gabriel, one of Mexico's most beloved and prolific composers, who wrote over 1,800 songs. Juan Gabriel — El Divo de Juárez — was a singular figure in Mexican popular music, and this song is among his most covered ballads. Mariachi Nuevo Real's interpretation brings the beloved composition into the mariachi context, where its emotional directness is amplified by strings and brass. The song belongs to the Mexican romantic ballad tradition where forgetting and remembering are treated as acts of involuntary love.

Meaning of the Song

Se Me Olvidó Otra Vez is about the ambush of memory — the moment you're walking down a familiar street and you forget, just for a second, that it's over. The crimson roses are still there. The fragrance hasn't changed. And for one disorienting instant, so are they. Juan Gabriel understood that grief is not a straight line; it circles back. Mariachi Nuevo Real gives this moment strings and an ache that Juan Gabriel himself would have recognized.

Lyrics / Letra

Probablemente ya de mí te has olvidado
Y mientras tanto, yo te seguiré esperando
No me he querido ir para ver si algún día

Que tú quieras volver me encuentres todavía
Por eso, estoy aun
en el lugar de siempre
En la misma ciudad y con la misma gente

Para que tú, al volver no encuentres nada extraño
Y sea como ayer y nunca más dejarnos

Probablemente estoy pidiendo demasiado
Se me olvidaba que ya habíamos terminado

Que nunca volverás, que nunca me quisiste
Se me olvidó otra vez
Que solo yo te quise


Por eso aún estoy en el lugar de siempre

En la misma ciudad y con la misma gente
Para que tú al volver no encuentres nada extraño
Y sea como ayer y nunca más dejarnos

Probablemente estoy pidiendo demasiado
Se me olvidaba que ya habíamos terminado
Que nunca volverás, que nunca me quisiste

Se me olvidó otra vez
Que solo yo te quise

English Translation

I walked again
through that fragrant little alley
where once I surprised you
cutting from the rosebush
one more of those
crimson roses

And I saw your presence
as if you had never left
slowly waking
from that pleasant half-sleep
that dream from which
I don't want to wake

I forgot again
that what we had is over
that your kisses are for another
that I'm no longer in your arms
I forgot again
that even though I think of you so much
your life goes on without me
and mine keeps going with

I forgot again
that even though I think of you so much
your life goes on without me
and mine keeps going like this

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